Douglas Ross (referee)
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Douglas Ross is a Scottish football referee who has officiated in the Scottish Professional Football League and at international level.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Douglas Ross (referee) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4967309 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Douglas Ross (referee) Context triple: [Aberdeen Grammar School, hasNotableAlumnus, Douglas Ross (referee)]
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A.
Mark Clattenburg
Mark Clattenburg is an English former professional football referee renowned for officiating major international and club finals, including the UEFA Euro 2016 Final and the UEFA Champions League Final.
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B.
John Hough
John Hough is a British film and television director best known for his work in horror and genre cinema during the 1970s and 1980s.
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C.
Geoff Allott
Geoff Allott is a former New Zealand left-arm fast bowler best known for his standout performances at the 1999 Cricket World Cup, where he emerged as one of the tournament’s leading wicket-takers.
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D.
Julian Morris
Julian Morris is a British actor known for his roles in television series such as "Pretty Little Liars," "New Girl," and various film and TV dramas.
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E.
Marc Seriff
Marc Seriff is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early technical leader of the pioneering internet company AOL.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Douglas Ross (referee) Target entity description: Douglas Ross is a Scottish football referee who has officiated in the Scottish Professional Football League and at international level.
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A.
Mark Clattenburg
Mark Clattenburg is an English former professional football referee renowned for officiating major international and club finals, including the UEFA Euro 2016 Final and the UEFA Champions League Final.
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B.
John Hough
John Hough is a British film and television director best known for his work in horror and genre cinema during the 1970s and 1980s.
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C.
Geoff Allott
Geoff Allott is a former New Zealand left-arm fast bowler best known for his standout performances at the 1999 Cricket World Cup, where he emerged as one of the tournament’s leading wicket-takers.
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D.
Julian Morris
Julian Morris is a British actor known for his roles in television series such as "Pretty Little Liars," "New Girl," and various film and TV dramas.
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E.
Marc Seriff
Marc Seriff is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early technical leader of the pioneering internet company AOL.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football referee
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employer | Scottish Professional Football League ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
football refereeing
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sports officiating ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasRole |
assistant referee
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referee ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Scottish football system ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| leagueOfficiated | Scottish Professional Football League ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableFor |
officiating at international level
ⓘ
officiating in the Scottish Professional Football League ⓘ |
| occupation | football referee ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Scottish football matches
ⓘ
international football matches ⓘ |
| refereeLevel | international level ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| typeOfOfficial | match official ⓘ |
| workLocation | Scotland ⓘ |
| worksIn |
international football
ⓘ
professional football ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Douglas Ross (referee) Description of subject: Douglas Ross is a Scottish football referee who has officiated in the Scottish Professional Football League and at international level.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.